Month: November 2011

  • I’ve been trying out Scribus for typesetting of small books. I can’t get the justification right yet. Imposition of pages is through a PDF plug-in.

  • C3 – Google Maps on Steroids… (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

  • Russell, associate professor of digital media studies and co-director of DU’s Institute for Digital Humanities, says she saw the news-media revolution coming as a graduate student in the listserv activity that surrounded the Zapatista uprising in Mexico. “I knew things were changing in 1995. I saw the strength of the information network built by the…

  • Design Envy · Music for Shuffle: Matthew Irvine Brown

    Design Envy · Music for Shuffle: Matthew Irvine Brown My third post for Design Envy embraces the beauty of the digital, musical, glitch.

  • Who: Teachers of grade 5 and up who are interested in game design and learning more about the National STEM Video Game Challenge What: A Free One-Day Professional Development Session on Game Design in the Classroom From the National STEM Video Game Challenge to ed tech conferences around the country, you’ve heard the buzz about…

  • No, the way out of the trench war is usually to adopt openly the “old-fashioned” side that is being critiqued, while finding some way to flip it completely into something strange. I think of Cézanne in painting, who amidst the impressionist revolution found a way to retrieve the solidity of objects without relapsing into academicism,…

  • @johnthackara, 11/2/11 1:18 AM

    john thackara (@johnthackara) 11/2/11 1:18 AM As innovation focus moves from science fiction to social fiction, what follows ‘The Matrix’ as source for future ‘future concept’ videos?

  • Design Envy

    Design Envy My submissions to Design Envy are starting to go live. This one gives props to Matt Hawkins for Paper Pop!

  • It’s such a cute little helicopter until it starts shooting beanbags at you… (via Texas Sheriff’s office receives weaponizable drone, alarms local news station – Engadget)